Château Talbot - Saint-Julien 2005

Château Talbot - Saint-Julien 2005

At a rather cold and dry winter, followed a spring at high temperatures which allowed the vine to fill a certain delay in bud burst to bloom beautifully and in a grouped way in the first days of June (mid-bloom Merlot: 30may) This key date has "programmed" the grape harvest on September 19, 2005 (112 days of mid-bloom on Merlot, at Talbot = optimum technological maturity of this grape variety) A particularly dry summer, occurring after a winter too little Watered, combined with very cool nights throughout the months of July, August and September, we saved a few more days and Thursday, September 15 we could pick up the first bunches of sugar richness rarely equaled (14. 5 ° suitable for the first tank) and high quality polyphenols. The great troop arrived on September 20 and masterfully gathered in a large colorful ballet the different plots, one after the other without any particular problem. The grapes were healthy, ripe and all of great quality: their tasting, in the field, made it possible to group plots that looked like each other or, on the contrary, to attempt some assemblages before the letter, before the vinification, which, by experience, allowed us to hope some exceptional vats where a synergy worked well before the assembly of the wines made ...